The movie adaptation may become a reality after all.
By Stax

Entertainment Weekly claims the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal graphic novel Watchmen might not be quite as dead as fans had feared.

Just to recap, Paramount unceremoniously put Watchmen into turnaround earlier this year, only months before director Paul Greengrass was scheduled to begin filming. Work had already been done on the sets and costume designs. Casting rumors were making the rounds, and David Hayter's screenplay adaptation was widely met with approval for accomplishing what had seemed to be impossible (boiling the 12-issue series down into a faithful and effective script for a two hour-plus movie). And then everything came to a halt over the film's price tag. Paramount's new regime balked at spending so much on such a dark and gritty comic book movie, and Pinewood Studios was deemed not ecomonically viable enough to shoot in. Greengrass eventually moved on to the 9/11 drama Flight 93.

Now EW claims that Watchmen producers Lawrence Gordon and Lloyd Levin are in talks with Warner Bros. (the studio that is owned, along with DC Comics, by Time Warner) to take over the project. "We have every reason to believe we will eventually make the movie," Gordon told EW.
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